This is what I got from my Lawyer...
Beginning over the next week, all INS offices--Service Centers and District Offices--will be conducting an audit in which all pending forms in INS\' possession will be inventoried. This will involve opening every file in each office and counting each pending form. The impact of this will be a virtual halt to processing of cases at the Service Centers for at least a week, possibly longer. The exception will be permanent residence age-out cases, which will be processed on an "off-line" basis. The impact on the District Offices will vary from district to district, with some offices stating that no cases will be processed for the next month or two.
This is only a "run-through" audit. A similar but smaller scale run-through audit had been conducted in May. The "real" audit will be conducted at the end of September, and therefore a similar processing halt is expected at that time.
INS has stated that the purpose of these audits, which are termed deferred revenue audits, is to enable INS to determine the dollar value of items not yet completed in order to try to recapture appropriations from the user fee account to cover the cost of adjudicating the entire backlog of cases.
Beginning over the next week, all INS offices--Service Centers and District Offices--will be conducting an audit in which all pending forms in INS\' possession will be inventoried. This will involve opening every file in each office and counting each pending form. The impact of this will be a virtual halt to processing of cases at the Service Centers for at least a week, possibly longer. The exception will be permanent residence age-out cases, which will be processed on an "off-line" basis. The impact on the District Offices will vary from district to district, with some offices stating that no cases will be processed for the next month or two.
This is only a "run-through" audit. A similar but smaller scale run-through audit had been conducted in May. The "real" audit will be conducted at the end of September, and therefore a similar processing halt is expected at that time.
INS has stated that the purpose of these audits, which are termed deferred revenue audits, is to enable INS to determine the dollar value of items not yet completed in order to try to recapture appropriations from the user fee account to cover the cost of adjudicating the entire backlog of cases.